Engine swap 6th gen anything I should know?

After all those threads about my engine woes I bought a 2005 engine from a crashed VFR and am doing the swap myself this monday-tuesday. Are there any special tools or odd sizes of sockets or hex keys that I need and probably don't have?(the service manual just says remove bolts and doesn't say what size they are) Is there anything in the service manual that people know is wrong or is easier to do another way?

Basically: Tips&tricks for engine removal/installation on 6th gen?

 

It looks like the swingarm is primarily on by a 17mm hex bolt. Is this correct? If so I need to go out and buy a 17mm hex but that isn't hard, just need to be sure.

Also it is my intention to remove as little as possible, anything that can remain on the bike will.

 

I would take the extra step to remove the wheel and forks, may be easier in the long run.

 

Suggest you try a compression test on the replacement engine before mounting it.

Don't tighten any engine mounting bolts until they're all in place first, then work in 2 or 3 steps to bring them up to proppa torque specs.

 

You can't make me :tyrannosaurus:




6 hours from start to engine out.

 

Someone had done some serious surgery on the wiring harness under the throttlebodies. Wires cut and spliced all over the place and one had been disconnected since before I bought this bike(green wire that connects to a triangle connector on the front cylinder head) no idea what it was for.



I forgot to take a picture before leaving the garage today but here is a picture after my baby was back on her own feet. Currently headers and radiators are reattached and am letting the intake ports soak in MMO over night to clean them up. Throttle bodies still need reattachment as does most of the body work but I plan to ride with a minimum of plastics initially until I am satisfied.

 

That's ...umm 'Fantastic!' Do you think the wiring could have been cause of the engine issues you were having? Do you plan on tearing the old engine down to find what the problem was?

 

I don't see how an electrical issue would cause massive blowby. I do intend to tear into it, I expect to find a broken/bent/absent ring or a cracked piston.

 

Need some help. When I tried to put the gas tank on today gasoline began flowing out of the evap canister's top port on the clutch side of the bike. This port never had any hose on it that I can remember and in the honda microfiche it doesn't either. Did I hook something up wrong somewhere?

#14 goes to the fuel tank overfill port. #15 I have connected to a 4 way divider labeled F-40 in the second image. #13 is just the overfill drain line I thought. The only one I am slightly unsure about is #15.

 

Look in the Fuel System section

13 Is just a drain
Top left nipple on evap can is a vent to let air into the fuel tank
and has no hose
15 goes to throttle bodies
14 goes to air vent on tank
On the front bottom of the gas tank there is an air vent tube and an overfill tube. They should be different sizes so you don't get them mixed up.
If all is hooked up right then my guess is that when you were putting on the tank sloshing gas made it's way to the evap canister in which case it would be dumped out hose 13 to prevent damage to the canister.

 

toss the evap canister. youll thank me when you change your oil

 

What do you mean? Replace it?

 

Just get rid of it. It's dead weight and gets in the way of the oil filter.

 

Everything is buttoned up and she is purring like a kitten for once. I got to ride her a bit and oh my god is the engine smooth, no more surging or nothing! Love it.

 

Cool! Good to hear it all worked out. Interested in finding out what happened to original engine.